Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — Desiring and Attaining. [ARTICLE]

Desiring and Attaining.

Between desire and attaining, all human life flows on throughout. The wish is, in Its nature, pain; the attainment soon begets satiety, tty» end was only apparent; possession takes away the charm; the wish, the need, presents itself under a new form when it floes not; then follow desolateness, emptiness, ennui—against which the conflict is just as painful as against want That wish and ’ satisfaction should follow each other neither too quickly nor too slowly, reduces to the smallest amount the suffering which both occasion, and constitutes the happiest life.—Arthur Schopenhauer.